Let’s try this again. Am I the only one who was kinda offended on a moralic level? It doesn’t happen to me very often. The only two instances I can remember was my first viewing of BAD BOYS 2 and during PROJECT X. But I downright hated how the heroesin this movie kept endangering innocents. Not just the homeless guy in the beginning, whose near death and loss of everything he owns gets laughed off, but they also cause during the movie’s runtime way too many random car crashes. Often we even see those from the inside of the innocent bydrivers’ cars and in at least one instance we hear them scream.

As much as I love the F&F series, they treat it more cartoony or if some causes serious damage and potential (or definitive) death, it’s usually the bad guys.

]]>By: CJ Holdenhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3356615
Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:51:37 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3356615I just caught this on pay TV and am I the only one who was kinda offended on a moral
]]>By: Poefacehttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3346259
Sun, 12 Jul 2015 01:18:20 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3346259Watched this the other night with a lady friend, who summed up her impression after the first ten minutes – It’s about big boys, small cocks, and Justin Bieber lookalikes.

]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3223231
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:10:50 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3223231I like to think that NEED FOR SPEED takes place elsewhere in the Fastandfuriverse. Dom and Co. have been around for a while so they’re having the craziest adventures, while young bucks like the Needforspeedsters are just getting started so their adventures are still small time. I also think the theme of family is definitely there (I particularly like how willing these guys are to go to jail for each other) but we haven’t had seven movies to get to know them so it doesn’t quite have the weight of the other series.
]]>By: Felixhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3223228
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:47:41 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3223228It lacks the F&F’s series sense of fun and exaggerated “We Are Family, Bros” though.

Still i wonder if there’s room for 2 Racing Seriess for the mainstream. NEED FOR sPEED being the “realistic” alternative.

]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3223135
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:57:07 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3223135I agree. Poots was very appealing in a role that very easily could have been the Jar Jar of the movie.

I just watched this again and liked it even more the second time, especially after watching the documentaries on the Blu-ray. The director comes from a family of famous stuntmen who all grew up best friends with another family of famous stuntmen, who all worked on the movie, so you can really see the labor of love that this film was for everybody. There’s a a generosity of spirit to this movie that I think comes from it being made by friends and family who all share a common love of making expensive cars flip over seventeen times. It reminds me a little of HOOPER, in that it’s mostly a big dumb stunt spectacular but it’s also a personal statement from the heart of the kinds of guys who have made big dumb stunt spectaculars their life’s work. It loves the hardware, but it also loves and understands the people inside it. Ironic that a film based on a video game is the one in recent years to most exalt the tactile pleasures of practical stunt work and the people who perform it.

I watched it with my three-year-old nephew, who didn’t give a crap about the plot but loved the movie anyway because it’s basically two straight hours of race cars going zoom. So it works on a couple levels.

]]>By: Felixhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3223122
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:23:04 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3223122Imogen Poots is quite a unique choice for a female lead. But she just works for some reason.

Like if Brian Mills lost his CIA preventor super skills in the beginning and had to be a regular guy for the remainder of the movie an dthen in the final regain them and have a fistfight with his evil twin:

“You don´t remember anything,do you?

To which Neeson replies:

“I haven´t forgotten how to kill you,asshole!”

To me that worked, even though the film is bland in most ways.

I think NEESON ON A PLANE had some of the same stuff I got out of it,even though it´s probably elements that I put together based on Neesons previous works, rather than the films as seperate movies.

]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027750
Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:56:15 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027750I liked LIAM NEESON IS TAKEN OFF a lot better than UNKNOWN. Both of them fall apart once the mystery is solved, but I figured out UNKNOWN in the first ten minutes, while TAKEN OFF had enough red herrings (I had like 30 viable theories by the hour mark) to keep me guessing the whole time. And it’s just fun to see 6′ 5″ Neeson just manhandling dudes in confined spaces.
]]>By: RRAhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027745
Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:27:06 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027745Shoot – Eh I thought both UNKNOWN and NON-STOP were decent Hitchcockian paranoid fantasies. I mean NS, its got the classic regular-guy-suddenly-trapped-in-dire-situation-and-also-framed-for-it scenario. I guess one thing NS has over UNKNOWN is that NS doesn’t fall apart as quickly afterwards in retrospect like UNKNOWN did for me.
]]>By: Shoot McKayhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027738
Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:25:48 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027738Caught NEESON ON A PLANE last night. It was a solid post-9/11 thriller. When I walked home I started thinking about SCHINDLERS LIST for some reason. Both movies stars Neeson as someone trying to save a bunch of exposed people from certain death. And they both features lists of some sorts. But where Neeson uses the list to save people, in this he uses (the passenger list) to find out who fucked with his plane. And although he IS trying to save them, there are some Patriot Act shit going on. Interrogating them, threaten the passengers at gunpoint, going through their personal stuff (phones, emeil) , violating their integrity, not to mention stepping on some toes as he switches aisles. At one point someone remarks that it is some big brother society bullshit going on. Has the liberator turned to an oppressor? Has the hero finally turned a villain?

There are some exciting and creepy post-9/11 shit that is being dealt with. Cops with guns on planes (Air Marshalls) and stuff like that I had no idea about.

Coming from the same director who did UNKNOWN also starring Neeson, this comes across as a slightly better thriller without the low rent Hitchcockian aspects and a more straight forward action/thriller vibe that works. Too bad the few fights and action there is has an unforgivable amount of shakiness.

]]>By: Felixhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027616
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:57:59 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027616Box Office Mojo says this has earned $184,843,316 so far. Think it’ll get a sequel?
]]>By: Knox Harringtonhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027614
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:40:51 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027614I had such a great time with this. Aaron Paul absolutely carried the film for me. Every time his character had to contain his Hulk-like rage, I was right there with him.

On top of that, the car chases were fucking stunning. I think car nuts might even enjoy this more than the Fast and Furious movies. Obviously this can’t compete with Fast 5 and Furious 6, but where those films have become more action focused, Need For Speed is all about the racing. Some of those angles and tracking shots were unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Car porn of the highest quality.

I hope we get some sequels.

]]>By: Griffhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027591
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:03:01 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027591“RRA— China may not take over the world, but damn skippy they’re gonna take over the U.S.A. at some point.”

I wish it was the Japanese like the 80’s thought it would be instead. seriously. it irritates the shit out of me that if an Asian country has to have the US by the balls it’s China instead of Japan, it’s just not fair

]]>By: Shoot McKayhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027561
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:38:22 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027561Oh and [email protected] was my bad…
]]>By: Shoot McKay/* */http://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027560
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:26:49 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027560Jesse Pinkman as an action hero? I think I spend my money on Neeson and NON STOP instead, thank you very much.
]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027550
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:02:20 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027550Paul probably won’t headline another big-budget action picture anytime soon (though I can see him doing prominent second- or third-banana roles in large-scale productions) but he can probably work the indie neo-noir circuit for the rest of his career if he so chooses.
]]>By: Illinois Smithhttp://outlawvern.com/2014/04/08/need-for-speed/#comment-3027543
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:27:05 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=20973#comment-3027543Dumb quotes. That was meant as a reply do DM’s comment about how fresh-faced he looked when BB started. Look at him, he’s SUPER EXCITED!

I agree with Vern though, can’t see him getting more action vehicles after this. My favorite non-BB work of his was in SMASHED, a low-key drama about Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s struggle with alcoholism. I hope he gets more parts like that.